Re: Yablo, Quine and Carnap on ontology

[Flammarion]

On 22 Sep, 12:59, Quentin Anciaux <allco...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/9/22 Flammarion <peterdjo...@yahoo.com>
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> > On 22 Sep, 12:07, Quentin Anciaux <allco...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > It does show that you're nothing more than a program... which exists
> > > (mathematically) independantly of any of it's instantiation.
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> > Such existence is blatant Platonism.
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> No it's what a program is... Would you be different if instantiated on a x86
> computer than on an ARM based one ?

There's a difference between being independent of any
specific instantiation and being independent of all instantiations.
Platonism is not proved by multiple realisability.
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